iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are over 1,800 conflicts with PG&E and other utilities which has slowed down the project on the 119 mile spine. These conflicts add years in delay and billions in cost -- both hard costs and from delays. And that will continue until the governor and state legislature do something about it

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this qualifies you to be time's person of the year

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From NASA: How do you get a probe ready for the heat of Venus? Put it in a furnace.🔥 From Aug. 28 to Sept. 10, a model of our DAVINCI probe went through six cycles to 869°F (465°C), each matched to its planned hour-long descent. It came out unscathed: go.nasa.gov/3VYwVKR

Close-up of the DAVINCI probe engineering model, a rounded metallic vessel about the size of a yoga ball, before heat testing.
Credit: NASA/Mike Guinto

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

I don't believe that every trans person in America should immediately be made aware of every single evil bill introduced by some podunk state rep in a random red state they don't live in I don't think that's healthy. I have always needed to see a likelihood of advancement before I would write it up

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i am 100% serious, i think cities should start building infrastructure to accommodate year-round use of e-scooters and bikes

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And we see this in the changes to the NSF, how space science is being approached, etc. There’s a lack of inherent curiosity that I think you need to understand the pursuit of science as a good in and of itself.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 30/09/2026

Our Smile mission is ready for science. Its ultraviolet camera has already captured this substorm rippling through the northern lights around Earth’s North Pole. @science.esa.int 🧪🔭

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 30/09/2026

Dear (all universities); If you require EVERY syllabus to include the same 5+ pages of university material (on top of the actual course info), then you have made the syllabus even more likely to be ignored by students. The syllabus should be for course specifics. The catalog is for the rest

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Things in Deep Time you can't even imagine....

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OnThisDay 🔟 years ago, 30 September 2016, ESA's Rosetta mission ended with a landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, 12 years after its journey started 🧪🔭 @esa.int @science.esa.int @cnes.fr @dlr-de.bsky.social @operations.esa.int #Space #History #SpaceHistory

The picture shows an artist's impression of the Rosetta lander on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

Scientists Locate Impact Crater From Asteroid That Destroyed Roman Empire theonion.com/scientists-locate-impa…

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did you feel that M4.3 Washington? Be sure to fill out a Did You Feel It? Report! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Map showing the greater Seattle area. The star marks the location of the earthquake, which is to the southwest of Seattle and north east of Tacoma.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just imagine if we had a spacecraft heading there 👀

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also, many potential colonial subjects hated colonialism...

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 29/09/2026

On 27 September 2026 a landslide occured near Lete in the Mustang District, Nepal. The debris went into the Kali Gandaki River. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Rh3oqfy75E7i...

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 29/09/2026

What is the status of the "PROMISE" rover project? What is its concept of operations? What is its estimated total budget? What is its purpose?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 29/09/2026

This isn't subtext or hyperbole. Bruce Wayne will literally look at the reader & say it.

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 29/09/2026

🛰️ A glimpse of Europe's future in low Earth orbit. Two new industrial studies are exploring a potential European-led orbital outpost, building on decades of expertise in human spaceflight 🧑‍🚀🚀 Learn more: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @esa.int

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ESA investigates potential future European-led orbital outpost

As part of the preparation for the end of utilisation of the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to two European industrial consortia to conduct preli...

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 29/09/2026

Demuskify Space.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 28/09/2026

Working on my Mars slides for class, which means it's time to bring back my favorite slide I've ever made:

The "we're so back/it's so over meme" that has been edited so the x-axis is time from 1960 through 2040. The plot oscillates semi-sinusoidally between positive (we're so back) and negative (it's so over). It's labeled Mars Exploration Timeline.

The start of the timeline is small oscillations close to zero. These are labeled: first Soviet attempts (note: none of the Soviet attempts worked but they sure tried). The steep positive peak next to it, we're back, is labeled Viking landers. Then a massive negative, it's so over, is labeled: everyone crashes in the 90s. Look up Mars exploration to learn more about this. Then an even larger positive spike, we're so back, is for Curiosity and the other Mars rovers. Then a positive/negative combined spike is labeled Mars 2020 (for various reasons). Then a last negative, it's over (real) is labeled Mars Sample Return. This is accurate.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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cloth gown gridlock @rosyrhapsody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Japan they don't call it a train of thought, it's the Thinkansen

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it's important to consider toast's little mittens

toast (the cat) loafed in bed with his little mitten paws sticking out

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pete @ptmoria.com · 27/09/2026

God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the Houston Astros

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Lindsay 🎃 @broadwell.eu · 27/09/2026

that fandom is a curse, and pandering to fandom is the death of art

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Claire (derogatory) 🎃 @clarissakickass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trapped, my ass. You’re not slingshotting me back anywhere. Throw me a uniform and have me scrub plasma conduits, I don’t give a fuck. I’m just happy to be part of the team now

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Emily B @deltadizzy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wish there were circles so I could crash out without being on full display

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day 12 and a half years ago I saw the coolest ever iceberg. Never seen one like it since. Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón, #Iceland

A six-foot (ish) high turquoise iceberg with a small friend on a black sand beach. Grey rainy day with some of the turquoise reflected in the blank sand, and long exposure smooth waves breaking.

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Cafe Kaicho ☀️ ⛅️ @cafekaicho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is one of my favorite images on the internet.

Spiderman saying “That's a cute opinion.
Did a YouTuber give it to you?”

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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CTA salutes the life and legacy of Dolly Parton on Dolly Parton Day. Through her Imagination Library, she put more than 200 million books into the hands of young children, and she believed the journey to a bright future starts early.

A passenger exits a Pink Line train with a digital sign displaying '925/Dolly'.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026

Technology is very cool and good and I like it, I just don't like it when it goes wrong and bad and hurts us instead of helping us

me as a child using a screwdriver to explore the open innards of electronic equipment, surrounded by tangled multi-coloured wires and small-part storage drawers in a cluttered workshop, conveying playful curiosity and hands-on tinkering.

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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stop eating octopuses.. A marine biologist films this octopus changing colors while dreaming and it’s spectacular

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

China’s Tiangong Space Station crosses in front of Jupiter in this remarkable astrophotography shot. Just hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Tiangong appears in front of Jupiter, a world hundreds of millions of kilometres away. Captured by 沈老思347

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Mark Marley @markmarley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From yesterday, Planetary Geosciences undergraduate Dora Elalaoui-Pinedo explains her working making digital terrain models to NASA Administrator Isaacman. Dora is one of the first 10 or so majors in our new program that started a few years ago.

LPL undergrad Dora Elalaoui-Pinedo shows NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman 3D terrain models of Mars.

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